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Threading out some ideas from my essay for /bedrock 👇 🪡🧵{1/x}
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The essay argues that the tech industry is lacking in the way that it thinks about styles, causing a drag on its ability to adapt and bring about new culture. Architecture for example has a robust, theory-generating culture of critique. It sees style as a moral-aesthetic orientation that manifests and embeds values into our world.
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This is why styles in architecture align with social, cultural, and economic paradigms: Renaissance > early capitalist city-states Baroque > mercantilism Neoclassicism > early nation-states Modernism > industrialization/international socialism {See Patrik Schumacher's writings on this}
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I argue tech is still stuck at Modernism — a style which architecture rejected in the 1970s as dehumanizing, authoritarian, and fascist. And that this style doesn't fit with the social and cultural potentialities of the new internet being built onchain.
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I love the way this meme by @nstlgiaxpress gets at this. Dominant tech aesthetics and references are overwhelmingly Modernist. There's a straight line from Dieter Rams to Jony Ive. In the essay I note Virgil Abloh is a lone exception, yet its telling his Postmodern ideas have not really been adopted in a meaningful way, as they directly oppose the fundamentals of Modernism (Dada in the Apple Store).
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In architecture the height of Modernism was The International Style, which brought us the skyscraper and countless Soviet-era apartment blocks. I argue the interfaces of most Web 2.0 mega-platforms fall into the same patterns of centralized aesthetic flattening and dehumanization.
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This style aligns perfectly with the current socio-economic reality of the internet: that a handful of major corporations control the web, and frame the habits and interactions of billions of users. And so if we want a new internet, it will need a new style.
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